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9 Sept 1814 5

Logic or Ethics Ch Summum bonum

2 § 1 Platonists & Academics

The God of the Christians Paul appears as no man body ever saw, Easter times, but
The God of he whom is the with what sense of enjoyment?
Of the God of the Jews no man but Moses ever knew any part, and that he but the hinder part
and if here was sight, where was the enjoyment?

Nonsense in general — or at least this nonsense in particular is like an oil:
when you think you have it fast, it slips through your fingers
and in comes another lot of nonsense in the stead of it

After giving you for the summum bonum of these philosophers
[the Platonists and the Academics] the idea of good
as if this were not unintelligible enough, in the same breath, in the same sentence, and in the very next words Instruction, in comes the compared-maker
with a sivi — "sivi vision et fructiam Dei"
that is to say understand in the vision and fruition — the Dei seeing
and enjoying of God.

Here if there were any thing, there could be two things,
vision as seeing of God one thing, enjoying of God, another
thing: and this same idea of good, what has either of them to do with it.

Enjoying a person of the same species and the opposite
sex — this is sufficiently intelligible enough: but this is of the number
of these things in which, as we are expressly every body says who ever talked about the summum
bonum is altogether clear the summum bonum is not to
be found: and so in this case as to instance of a mass of turtle or a
pine-apple. But God? enjoyment of God? what sort of an
enjoyment is that? by whom was it ever experienced. As
to the God — the God here spoken of — and though here it we are
given to understand there is but one God, so he is neither
the God of the Jews, nor the God of the Christians who each
of these had but one — and he, as they say, as the Christians
at least say the same — but the God of the Platonists and
the Academics — all of them heathens, all of them having Gods by
thousands.

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Date_1	1814-09-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	061	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] mj&l 1811]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	colonel aaron burr
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1811
Notes public		ID Number	4824
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